7, a group of 14 sailors and scientists - mostly from Norway - boarded a pair of similarly constructed rafts and set out from Peru for Easter Island. After 101 days at sea, the raft was beached on an atoll in the Tuamotu group of islands, and the Kon-Tiki expedition-named after the Peruvian Sun God - was considered a success.
In 1947, Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl boarded a handmade balsawood raft in Peru and set out across the Pacific with five other men in attempt to prove a theory that South American natives might have been the people who settled the distant Polynesian islands in the Pacific. The Kon-Tiki 2 expedition sets sail from Peru on handmade wooden rafts, with hopes to reach Easter Island and study plastic pollution in our oceans.
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